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From: psg+@pitt.edu (Paul S Galvanek)
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Subject: New polls & stats the fascist gun-control nazis won't like!
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Here's some updated numbers sure to curl the toes of - gun control as
a way of reducing crime - advocates...

average number of gun deaths per year over the decade 1979-1988: 

	 30,000  (INcludes death resulting from ALL types of 
                 firearms, suicides, accidents and crime)         

number of known defensive uses of fireams between 1979-1981 alone: 

	644,976  (EXcludes police and military use) 

Note there were twice as many lawful defensive uses of firearms in the
first three years of that decade as there were deaths resulting from 
ALL types of firearm deaths in the entire decade.  There nubmers are taken
from an article appearing in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, _`Common man' vs.
gun control_ by Samuel Francis.

From the Time/CNN poll December 20 1993 issue:

	Do you favor stricter gun-control laws?

	Favor	70%
	Oppose	27%

	Do you favor mandatory registration of all guns?

	Favor	78%
	Oppose  21%

	Do you favor a law which would make it illegal for any
	private citizen to own a handgun for any puropse?

	Favor	23%
	Oppose	74%
	
	Do you have any guns of any type in your home?
	
	Yes	48%
	No	50%

	poll margin of error +/- 4.5%


The article itself, _Up in Arm_, has some even more interesting statistics,
though neo-fascist gun control freaks who falsely and foolishly believe
public opinion is turning in their favor won't care for them, for instance:

	- number of people opposing handgun bans has been rising
	  steadily.  The 74% opposing such bans is UP 10% in just the 
	  last two months.

	- less than half of all American believe that stricter gun
	  control laws will have any impact on violent crime, down 
	  from the 68% this past march.

	- Since control has been in the news, the past 16 months, the
	  NRA has added 1,500 new members a day raising their member-
	  ship from just under 2.5 million in 1991 to almost 3.3 million 
	  today.

	- Since passage of the Brady Bill gun store owners report 
	  a dramatic jump in gun sale (number not available yet) with
	  high capacity semi-automatics being the weapons selling fastest.

	- In the year following the LA riots, gun sales rose 45% over
	  the previous year.  

The Rooster


P.S. The article mentions an essay by Jeffrey Snyder called " A Nation of
     Cowards", that appeared in _The Public Interest_   Anyone have an idea
     where one could get a copy? 

 
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